Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing
The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial鈥攖he longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States鈥攆eatures seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today鈥檚 most pressing issues. This Biennial is like being inside a 鈥渄issonant chorus," as participating artist Ligia Lewis described it, a provocative yet intimate experience of distinct and disparate voices that collectively probe the cracks and fissures of the unfolding moment.
The exhibition鈥檚 subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman鈥攍ess than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered.
This Biennial is a gathering of artists who explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds around us. Whether through subversive humor, expressive abstraction, or non-Western forms of cosmological thinking, to name but a few of their methods, these artists demonstrate that there are pathways to be found, strategies of coping and healing to be discovered, and ways to come together even in a fractured time.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.
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The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial鈥攖he longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States鈥攆eatures seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today鈥檚 most pressing issues. This Biennial is like being inside a 鈥渄issonant chorus," as participating artist Ligia Lewis described it, a provocative yet intimate experience of distinct and disparate voices that collectively probe the cracks and fissures of the unfolding moment.
The exhibition鈥檚 subtitle, Even Better Than the Real Thing, acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman鈥攍ess than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered.
This Biennial is a gathering of artists who explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds around us. Whether through subversive humor, expressive abstraction, or non-Western forms of cosmological thinking, to name but a few of their methods, these artists demonstrate that there are pathways to be found, strategies of coping and healing to be discovered, and ways to come together even in a fractured time.
The 2024 Whitney Biennial is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator and Meg Onli, Curator at Large, with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes. The performance program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curator Taja Cheek. The film program is organized by Iles and Onli, with guest curators Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.
Artists on show
- Alex Tatarsky
- Alisi Telengut
- Aron Kantor
- B. Ingrid Olson
- Cannupa Hanska Luger
- Carmen Winant
- Carolyn Lazard
- Chanelle Tyson
- Charisse Pearlina Weston
- Christopher Harris
- Clarissa Tossin
- Constantina Zavitsanos
- Dala Nasser
- Debit
- Demian DinéYazhi
- Diane Severin Nguyen
- Dionne Lee
- Dora Budor
- Eamon Ore-Giron
- Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
- Edward Owens
- Ektor García
- Gbenga Komolafe
- Harmony Hammond
- Holland Andrews
- Holly Herndon
- Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst
- Isaac Julien
- Jenni Laiti
- Jes Fan
- JJJJJerome Ellis
- Julia Phillips
- K.R.M. Mooney
- Karyn Olivier
- Kiyan Williams
- Lada Suomenrinne
- Ligia Lewis
- Lotus Laurie Kang
- Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
- Maja Ruznic
- Mary Kelly
- Mary Lovelace O'Neal
- Mavis Pusey
- Miranda Haymon
- Niillasa拧-Jovnna Máreha Juhani Sunná Máret
- Nikita Gale
- Nyala Moon
- Patrick Staff
- Penelope Spheeris
- Philip Garner
- Raqs Media Collective
- Riar Rizaldi
- Rose B. Simpson
- Sarah Hennies
- Sebastián Calfuqueo
- Ser Serpas
- Sharon Hayes
- Shuang Li
- Siku Allooloo
- Simon Liu
- Sunna Nousuniemi
- Suzanne Jackson
- Suzanne Kite
- Sydney Frances Pascal
- Takako Yamaguchi
- Tee Park
- Torkwase Dyson
- Tourmaline
- Tzu-Nyen Ho
- Winter Count
- Yasmine Anlan Huang
- Zulaa Urchuud
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